Biografia alex pettyfer
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ALEX PETTYFER
Date of Birth: April 10, 1990
Born in England, Alex Pettyfer is the son of actor Richard Pettyfer and former model Lee Robinson. He beganmodeling when he was seven and after performing in school plays, including the role of Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, landed his first professionalacting role at 14, playing the title role in the British TV movie Tom Brown's Schooldays(2005).
Anthony Horowitz, the author of the popular Stormbreaker novels,saw the show. He was so impressed by Pettyfer's performance as Tom Brown that he e-mailed the producers of Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006), an upcomingfilm based on his books, and asked them to consider Alex for the role.
Pettyfer was one of 500 boys called in to audition and after numerous callbacks over a spanof several months, he won the part. When filming began in July 2005 he had just turned 15, and found himself working with the likes of Ewan McGregor, MickeyRourke and Alicia Silverstone. Since then he's gone on to star in the thriller I Am Number Four as a teen masking his alien identity by posing as an average highschool student, and in the romance Beastly, playing an arrogant teenager who's transformed into a hideous monster.
Pettyfer, who grew up in Windsor, Berkshire withhis mother, stepfather, and younger half-brother, James, finished school in July 2006 at the age of 16 and currently lives in Los Angeles. He enjoys skiing in hisspare time. He dated his I Am Number Four co-star, Dianna Agron, for a year but she left him after suggestive photos of him taken with models were released.
Date of Birth: April 10, 1990
Born in England, Alex Pettyfer is the son of actor Richard Pettyfer and former model Lee Robinson. He beganmodeling when he was seven and after performing in school plays, including the role of Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, landed his first professionalacting role at 14, playing the title role in the British TV movie Tom Brown's Schooldays(2005).
Anthony Horowitz, the author of the popular Stormbreaker novels,saw the show. He was so impressed by Pettyfer's performance as Tom Brown that he e-mailed the producers of Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006), an upcomingfilm based on his books, and asked them to consider Alex for the role.
Pettyfer was one of 500 boys called in to audition and after numerous callbacks over a spanof several months, he won the part. When filming began in July 2005 he had just turned 15, and found himself working with the likes of Ewan McGregor, MickeyRourke and Alicia Silverstone. Since then he's gone on to star in the thriller I Am Number Four as a teen masking his alien identity by posing as an average highschool student, and in the romance Beastly, playing an arrogant teenager who's transformed into a hideous monster.
Pettyfer, who grew up in Windsor, Berkshire withhis mother, stepfather, and younger half-brother, James, finished school in July 2006 at the age of 16 and currently lives in Los Angeles. He enjoys skiing in hisspare time. He dated his I Am Number Four co-star, Dianna Agron, for a year but she left him after suggestive photos of him taken with models were released.
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